Jack Smith, who led the makes an attempt to prosecute and imprison President Trump within the run-up to the 2024 election over his efforts to problem the voter fraud that happened within the 2020 presidential election, mentioned he desires to look “in open hearings” to share his facet of the story.
In a letter from his attorneys, he pledged to deal with the “quite a few mischaracterizations” surrounding his investigations, which have been designed to stop Trump from taking again the presidency.
The letter, despatched by Smith’s legal professionals and obtained by CNN, states:
We’ve got acquired Chairman Jordan’s October 14, 2025, letter and are conscious of Chairman Grassley’s curiosity in testimony from our shopper, Jack Smith.
Given the numerous mischaracterizationsof Mr. Smith’s investigation into President Trump’s alleged mishandling of categorised doc sand function in making an attempt to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election, Mr. Smith respectfully requests the chance to testify in open hearings earlier than the Home and Senate Judiciary Committees.
Throughout the investigation of President Trump, Mr. Smith steadfastly adhered to establishedauthorized requirements and Division of Justice tips, constant along with his method all throughhis profession as a devoted public servant.
He’s ready to reply questions in regards to the Particular Counsel’s investigation and prosecution, however requires assurance from the Division of Justicethat he is not going to be punished for doing so.
To that finish, Mr. Smith wants steerage from theDivision of Justice concerning federal grand jury secrecy necessities and authorization onthe issues he could converse to concerning, amongst different issues, Quantity II of the Ultimate Report of theParticular Counsel, which isn’t publicly accessible.
As well as, to offer full and correct solutionsto your questions, Mr. Smith requires entry to the Particular Counsel information, which he now not now not has the flexibility to entry.
Simply final week, Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee referred Smith to the Division of Justice for legal investigation and doable disbarment over “deeply disturbing revelations” that he illegally obtained Senate Republicans’ name logs.
JUST IN: Jack Smith Referred to DOJ For Criminal Investigation and Disbarment
After failing to imprison Trump and dissuade the American public from giving him a second time period, Smith wound down his investigations and promptly resigned from the Division of Justice.
He has since insisted that claims he was motivated by political vengeance are “completely ludicrous.”
“The concept politics would play a task in massive instances like this, it’s completely ludicrous and it’s completely opposite to my expertise as a prosecutor,” Smith mentioned throughout a current interview in London.
Recall that Jack Smith is the DOJ lawyer ho oversaw two legal investigations into President Donald Trump throughout the Biden administration. Each have been political witch hunts. One concerned Trump’s dealing with of categorised paperwork he took when leaving workplace, the opposite was President Trump’s actions on Jan. sixth, 2021. Smith insisted it was an try by Trump to overturn the 2020 election. Smith hoped to imprison Trump for the remainder of his days on earth. Each flimsy instances have been later dismissed.
